When comparing Sublime Text with C Improved plugin vs KDevelop, the Slant community recommends KDevelop for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs for C on Windows?” KDevelop is ranked 7th while Sublime Text with C Improved plugin is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose KDevelop is:
Kdevelop has very smart syntax and semantic syntax highlighting.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Consistent cross-platform
Looks consistently the same across Windows, OS X and Linux.
Pro Fast
Sublime Text 2 is among the fastest editors as it is and Sublime Text 3 promises to improve the start-up time to become even faster.
Pro Powerful plugin system
Sublime Text supports a large number of languages and general text editing features out of the box, but its most useful feature is its extensibility - Sublime Text uses TextMate's syntax declaration files to support new languages, has all its menus and keybindings generated from JSON files, and can be scripted to add new features using Python.
Pro Excellent syntax highlighting
Kdevelop has very smart syntax and semantic syntax highlighting.
Cons
Con Proprietary
Con Few releases
Sublime Text 3 is in Beta since June 2013 but the latest Dev version of Sublime Text 3 was released in Februrary 2016.
Con Only preliminary support for Windows
Con Works with no problems only on Linux
KDevelop is an IDE for the KDE platform. Even though it's cross-platform, it's mostly targeted at Linux systems and the versions for other operating systems are highly experimental.